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Review in Brief: Riders of Justice (2020)
From its fable-like opening to its really rather schmaltzy Christmas closing moments and all the sudden acts of violence in-between, Anders Thomas Jensen’s RIDERS OF JUSTICE consistently delivers the unexpected. Markus (Mads Mikkelsen) returns home from military deployment to look … Continue reading
Review in Brief: Another Round (2020)
Alcohol: the great social liberator and the great destroyer, or as Homer Simpson famously put it “the cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems”. ANOTHER ROUND follows a group of middle-class friends and teachers in Denmark who experiment … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Round, Comedy, Drama, Mads Mikkelsen, Oscars, Thomas Bo Larsen, Thomas Vinterberg, World Cinema
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Deerskin (2019) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Adèle Haenel, Black Comedy, Deerskin, Jean Dujardin, Quentin Dupieux, World Cinema
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Review in Brief: Space Sweepers (2021)
SPACE SWEEPERS is an ambitious, vibrant, zongo Korean space opera that runs a bit long and perhaps suffers from being overstuffed with too many ideas, but you go with it because you grow to love this dysfunctional crew/family of misfits … Continue reading
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Tagged Jo Sung-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Richard Armitage, Sci-fi, Space Sweepers, World Cinema
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Review in Brief: Impetigore (2019/20)
Even in a year chock-full of examples of distinctively-voiced horror, the Indonesian offering IMPETIGORE stands out. It’s self-aware without being glib (someone asks “who kills students?” the answer every horror fan knows, is any antagonist in a horror film), it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Horror, Impetigore, Joko Anwar, Tara Basaro, World Cinema
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Review in Brief: A White, White Day (2019)
A WHITE, WHITE DAY is a film, like its protagonist (a craggy, mesmerising Ingvar Sigurdsson), utterly consumed by grief. The imposing Icelandic landscape blurs the line between life and death, beauty and bleakness, memory and reality. Little moments of quiet … Continue reading
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Tagged A White, Drama, Ingvar Sigurdsson, White Day, World Cinema
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Review in Brief: Ainu Mosir
The Ainu are the aboriginal people of Hokkaidō, Japan’s large northern island. Following centuries of oppression, discrimination, cultural invalidation, the Ainu were officially recognised as indigenous people of Japan in 2008. AINU MOSIR (after the Ainu name for Hokkaidō) tells … Continue reading
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Tagged Ainu Mosir, Debo Akibe, Drama, Kanto Shimokura, World Cinema
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